{"id":64535,"date":"2024-05-30T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/this-election-is-critical-for-congress-can-indias-gandhi-dynasty-survive"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:37:43","slug":"this-election-is-critical-for-congress-can-indias-gandhi-dynasty-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64535","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This election is critical for Congress\u2019: can India\u2019s Gandhi dynasty survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say a third consecutive electoral defeat in June could throw into question the political viability of the party and the family synonymous with it<\/p>\n<p>The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty were once the giants of India\u2019s politics \u2013 the family at the forefront of the independence battle, who built up the formidable Congress party and produced three prime ministers.<\/p>\n<p>But now the family are fighting for their survival. India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality\">prime minister, Narendra Modi<\/a>, and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government are seeking a third term in power in elections taking place over six weeks. Most analysts believe a BJP victory against Congress and its allies once again seems likely.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/this-election-is-critical-for-congress-can-indias-gandhi-dynasty-survive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say a third consecutive electoral defeat in June could throw into question the political viability of the party and the family synonymous with itThe Nehru-Gandhi dynasty were once the giants of India\u2019s politics \u2013 the family at the forefront of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rahul-gandhi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64536,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64535\/revisions\/64536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}